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52 Val. U. L. Rev. 205 (2017-2018)
The Clean Energy Incentive Program: A Withdrawn Invitation to Technological Innovation and Market Transformation in the Electric Energy Industry

handle is hein.journals/valur52 and id is 217 raw text is: Article THE CLEAN ENERGY INCENTIVE PROGRAM: A WITHDRAWN INVITATION TO TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND MARKET TRANSFORMATION IN THE ELECTRIC ENERGY INDUSTRYt Michael A. Mullett* I. INTRODUCTION Global climate change is perhaps the most challenging, complex, and controversial issue to face humanity since the dawn of the nuclear age at the conclusion of World War II in 1945.1 It also proved to be one of the t This is an Addendum to an article published by author Michael A. Mullett in Valparaiso University Law Review Volume 51. See Michael A. Mullett, The Clean Energy Incentive Program: A (Stayed) Invitation to Technological Innovation and Market Transformation in the Electric Energy Industry, 51 VAL. U. L. REv. 405 (2017). The original article was submitted for editing prior to the November 2016 Presidential election and its content was not modified based on the results of the election, which dramatically changed the direction of American national policy with respect to climate change when the Trump Administration succeeded the Obama Administration in January 2017. Notably, this dramatic change was reflected in the Trump Administration's actions to withdraw the commitments made by former President Obama at the Paris Climate Change Conference, rescind the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan Final Rule, and withdraw the Obama Administration's Clean Energy Incentive Program Proposed Rule. Accordingly, this Addendum is intended to describe and analyze the Trump Administration's dramatic shift in American national policy as it affected the Obama Administration's Proposed Rule for the Clean Energy Incentive Program as previously described and analyzed in the author's previously published Volume 51 article. Michael A. Mullett practiced public interest law in Indiana for more than 30 years, specializing in energy, utility and environmental law, prior to his retirement in 2014. In his law practice, he represented exclusively non-profit organizations and community groups committed to serving the economic, environmental and public participation interests of ordinary people engaged in extraordinary cases and causes. His clients included the Citizens Action Coalition, Hoosier Environmental Council, and the Sierra Club. He was named Indiana Trial Lawyer of the Year in 1994 and Environmental Litigator of the Year in 1999 and 2004. He is also a long-time Adjunct Professor of Law at the McKinney School of Law of Indiana University, teaching a Seminar in Public Utility Regulation and Deregulation. After being awarded his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Michigan in 1966 and 1973, respectively, Mr. Mullett received his Juris Doctor degree from the McKinney School in 1982 and his Masters of Law degree in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College in 1999. 1 See Brian Kahn, Obama Just Tied Climate Change to National Security, CLMATE CHANGE (Sept. 22, 2016), http://www.climatecentral.org/news/obama-climate-change-national- 205